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§1 Plant — species · Scrophulariaceae

Penstemon attenuatus Douglas ex Lindl.

vernacular sulphur penstemon


USDA
PEAT3
GBIF
7824216
Rank
species
sulphur penstemon (Penstemon attenuatus)
Platephotograph · Matt LavinCC BY-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Genus
Penstemon
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Montana distribution

Recorded in 13 of 56 Montana counties.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/PEAT3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7824216 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25

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